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> But I'm stuck on the ACA. It's the example you provided. In reality, no normal person on my side of the aisle thinks that opposition to the ACA is racist, nor do I think you can find credible mainstream Democratic sources saying that.

Who is a normal person? The Forbes article I posted is from a Duke MD. The article appears to be based on Senator Jay Rockefeller’s contemporaneous claim that opposition to the ACA was because Obama was the “wrong color.” It looks like no other Congressional Democrat backed that idea, so you’re right in that respect.

On the broader trend, Jonathan Chait, himself a liberal pundit, has clearly noticed it. https://nymag.com/news/features/obama-presidency-race-2014-4...

> One of the greatest triumphs of liberal politics over the past 50 years has been to completely stigmatize open racial discrimination in public life, a lesson that has been driven home over decades by everybody from Jimmy the Greek to Paula Deen. This achievement has run headlong into an increasing liberal tendency to define conservatism as a form of covert racial discrimination. If conservatism is inextricably entangled with racism, and racism must be extinguished, then the scope for legitimate opposition to Obama shrinks to an uncomfortably small space.

Though in the same piece he writes:

> America’s unique brand of ideological anti-statism is historically inseparable (as I recently argued) from the legacy of slavery.

Chait, at least six years ago, correctly observed that these arguments are fallacious:

> And yet—as vital as this revelation may be for understanding conservatism, it still should not be used to dismiss the beliefs of individual conservatives. Individual arguments need and deserve to be assessed on their own terms, not as the visible tip of a submerged agenda; ideas can’t be defined solely by their past associations and uses.

More recently, however, Chait has embraced the trend he was skeptical of in the above passage.

In August 2020 he wrote: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/senate-washington-dc...

> The Senate is a bulwark of white power.

A few months later he writes, without a hint of irony:

> Why Are Conservatives So Angry Biden Denounced White Supremacy?

Now maybe I read too much Jonathan Chait. But I truly find his rhetoric truly perplexing, for someone I perceive as being maybe solidly left wing, but within the Overton Window. I thought that anti-statism was something the left and right broadly agreed on. (During the Obama era, polls showed that even half of Democrats listed “big government” as the “biggest threat to America.”)
I think the interesting part is what axioms and operations you back into, based on the environment that you observe. We have ten fingers and needed accountants, but I don't know that that's a given, and what you find first could very well determine what's interesting later. See Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" for a society that industrialized before it discovered astronomy.
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> Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.

Or, the homeless are recent migrants from other areas? At least where i live, the homeless all congregate in biggest wealthiest cities, because it's easier to beg, their presence blends in more and also local communities are more atomized so they don't fight off the homeless as hard as in smaller places. I've heard a story of one homeless guy who have recently been sleeping on a bus stop near my home - he's basically travelling from one big city center to another, and stays as long as the police doesn't chase him off the area.
And the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
Completely false.
Several EU businesses have stopped selling to UK customers in the face of incomprehensible customs, duties, and delivery charges.

Those EU businesses that continue to sell to the UK will presumably already be working out an uplift to UK customer prices anyway - being denominated in a different currency makes this easy enough to do (it's impossible to identify consumer surcharges if you just list the prices in a different currency).
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The story is a little bit confusing.

Leaving the EEA, the interchange paid to debit and credit card* issuers is indeed not capped to respectively 0.2 and 0.3% anymore. Banks can decide to charge more, but that is not different from say, purchases with Swiss or US credit cards that happen in the EU. Merchants and payment processors have to deal with that. Whether they can pass on the fee to specific consumers, I believe that depends on countries and competition laws. The issue here is that the EU prohibits card payment surcharges, which makes MC and VISA very happy.

But back to the initial topic, what's MasterCard's real involvement in pushing for interchange increase? Their own fee isn't concerned by this cap anyway. And from what I understand, it's very small compared to the part going to payment processors. Why would they initiate the move? I'm sure banks are very well aware of regulations going away and opportunities to charge more fees.

* Only 4-party schemes, non-business/corporate cards.
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I think that some of this effect is aerodynamics. Insects are pretty small — to get one to splatter on your windshield, the surrounding air needs to be under rather high acceleration so that the insect hits the windshield instead of following the air’s streamlines around your car. This condition isn’t great for aerodynamic drag. Newer cars try harder to be efficient, which reduces their tendency to splatter insects in their paths.
No. Initially, MACS was conceived with insufficient control authority to endanger the plane. It was therefore classified as insufficiently critical to necessitate redundancy. Later, the scope of MCAS was extended, but the assumptions weren't revisited.

Furthermore, pilots were assumed to quickly identify and fix a "runaway horizontal stabiliser trim condition", providing the necessary backstop in case of system failure.

It's absurd to say that they made this on purpose to save some money. The aircraft already has two AoA sensors, but only one was used for MCAS. How is that saving money?

Rather, it was a convoluted concatenation of circumstances, pressure, occasional lapse in competence that gave rise to the problem.
Ellipsoids are round, just not radially symmetrical.
Or just have it work how comments do, where 1-2 new posts show up near the top of the page until they have a chance to get voted on.

Though I suppose it's a bit different for links since they can't be downvoted like comments can.
I don't think so—I've read several of his books and it was never mentioned; neither his Wiki page nor the first several results for googling "feynman eidetic memory" support the claim. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_poss... , on which he is not.
Its density is many times higher than most C programs, but that's no big obstacle to understanding if you don't attempt to "skim" it; you need to read it character-by-character from top to bottom. It starts off defining some basic types, C for Character and I for Integer, and then the all-important Array. This is followed by some more shorthand for printf, return, and functions of one and two arguments, all of the array type. The DO macro is used to make iteration more concise.

Then the function definitions begin. ma allocates an array of n integers (this code is hardcoded for a 32-bit system), mv is basically memcpy, tr (Total Rank?) is used to compute the total number of elements, and ga (Get/Generate Array) allocates an array.

This is followed by the definitions of all the primitive operations (interestingly, find is empty), a few more globals, and then the main evaluator body. Lastly, main contains the REPL.

While I don't think this style is suitable for most programmers, it's unfortunate that the industry seems to have gone towards the other extreme.
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What a terribly ignorant comment, but I suppose it is indicative of what HN has devolved into. 500 former world leaders and Nobel Laureates agree with me [1], but random Internet poster guy (along with all of the geniuses that downvoted my comments in this thread) thinks it’s out something straight out of Qanon. My source for that is undoubtedly one you implicitly trust...CNN. Not “Q”. Here is a direct quote from it:

”...the letter's chief warning is that countries with strong democratic traditions could use the pandemic to introduce extraordinary measures that in the long run become ordinary, doing permanent damage to global democracy...”

You, and those who think and act like you, really should educate yourselves before you criticize things you apparently know absolutely nothing about. You guys are turning the Internet into a toxic place where discussion of undeniable facts, from your own news sources and in this case brought to light by a collection of 500 of the world’s most credible people, are dismissed as wild conspiracy theories - simply because those facts might call into question the motives of politicians you blindly support.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/europe/coronavirus-authoritar...
This proposal coupled with phasing out third-party cookies inconveniences competitors, while allowing Google to continue gobbling up user data without disruption, because their tracking capabilities are way past needing any cookies, or this new cohort API.
No, but it's almost impossible to get out of homelessness without it. It's really hard to do anything more with your day if you have to spend most of it making sure you have enough calories and a "safe" place to sleep.

This doesn't fix everything, but there is a not-as-small-as-you-might-think subset of people for whom the only reason they continue to be homeless is they can't do anything other than figure out what they're gonna eat that day
"When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

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China relies on the fabs in Taiwan just as much as everyone else though.

I agree that war should be avoided and "the only way to win is not to play"!

However, I think we should also be considering globally how we can act more like Holons [1] for greater resilience from all types of threats to global interdependence. We want loosely coupled systems, we should want loosely coupled government too!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(philosophy)
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My point is, with San Francisco as an example, we don't even have the pretense of a market solution, due to cofactors such as California's 1978 Prop 13 and aggressive rent freezes for so-called "original" tenants. These two policies are examples of the state creating two favored classes at the expense of all other citizens.
This is pre-C89, K&R C.
You can use the newError branch: https://github.com/rust-starter/rust-starter/tree/newError

See https://rust-starter.github.io/#feature-errors for why Failure is still used.
Yeah, Boeing was complaining that Bombardier was receiving subsidies (which it did, at great expense to Québec taxpayers), while it was receiving many times that amount in subsidies as well from the US gov.

> US International Trade Commission agreed

If you think that wasn't from political pressure, I have a bridge to sell you.
"Serial killer may have found a life-friendly substitute to knives."

No but seriously, does being in a group of "thousands" of people really preserve privacy particularly well? It seems quite likely that with groups that small, membership itself could be considered privacy-compromising, e.g., a group of people that all have some medical condition.

At the most fundamental level, I feel like if you know which advertisments are targetted to me, and those advertisements are well-targeted, then my privacy has been invaded.

It seems to me there is a fundamental conflict between good targetted ads and protection of privacy.
Sad, but true. We're not anti-science. HN is one place where I'm quite sure everyone loves science. What we are is aware that the establishment entrusted with interpreting science has gone completely off the rails, and it has nothing to do with red vs. blue.
There are a lot of reasons to be homeless and not want to stay in a homeless shelter. A big one is security. When I was homeless and learning to code, I couldn’t afford to replace my laptop. People told me that if I stayed in a homeless shelter, there was a good chance my laptop would be stolen. I chose not to stay in one for that reason alone.

A few years later, I offered to let a homeless coding student stay with me for a couple weeks while she got housing lined up. She didn’t have one of her own, so I gave her my old MacBook Air. She made arrangements to stay in a shelter, left my place, and her laptop was stolen within a week.

Safety & security matter, and any solution that is going to effectively address homelessness needs to take this into account.
i vaguely remember seeing ads in the mainline icq client which instantly led me to a fix (aka tool to remove them). alternative multi-im clients followed shortly and i've never had any problem with them. still remember my icq number althou i haven't used it in a decade.
Indeed, much of what Failure did well has since been upstreamed into Rust's own std::error::Error type. The modern recommendations for error handling convenience libs are thiserror (for library crates, where you want to define errors) and anyhow (for binary crates, where you just want to consume errors), both of which are from the author of Serde.

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I like the idea, I also like how light the webpage is.

Not a fan of the way the usernames and the scores are arranged though. Having the username first before the score causes the scores to not align properly, and therefore it makes it really hard to scan the page for topics worth reading.
This is pretty much in line with standard physician salaries in the US. If anything Fauci could be making more in a traditional hospital setting at his career stage.
I call BS. This is probably thinly veiled political content making its way to HN.

https://www.armytimes.com/off-duty/military-sports/2017/09/1....
That only happens if they are engaged in healthy discussion. A flame war separated into two columns isn't that.
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I think a well-functioning democracy with an educated electorate will do better than China, but I wouldn't argue that the US meets those criteria. A better comparison might be the Nordic countries. If that's too much cherry-picking for you, consider that China is probably also the best-functioning autocracy in the world; plenty of autocracies are terrible.
Probably not.

When I travel for work, my tickets are constrained by time/location and cost.

When I travel for pleasure, I have more flexibility for date/location, but become much more price sensitive.

That said, I have enough price flexibility in both cases to mostly avoid unreasonable layovers (>1 layover, or >3 hours, roughly).
Hmmm. That sounds super smart. We never though about it. Thx a lot!
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Not least because those executives are only in charge of those organisations because their shareholders appointed them, in the expectation that the CEO's would act in the shareholders' best interests [0]. Legally the CEO's cannot suddenly decide to go off and do something else [1].

So the article is a bit off-base. It's not the CEOs that we need to persuade to change tactic, but the shareholders. However, for a lot of institutional shareholders, they're tied to financial returns because they're managing funds full of other people's money with a legal obligation to maximise returns.

There are "ethical" funds that could do this. Maybe we should be talking about this instead? An ethical fund with the specific aim of being an activist shareholder in Big Tech organisations?

[0]You could make the case that this is in the shareholders' best interests, but I doubt a court would agree.

[1]I have a feeling Zuckerberg is still a majority shareholder in FB, so maybe he can.
Unfortunately, backtracing is only available in nightly for thiserror and anyhow.
Apologies if I'm covering something you're already aware of, but that time is just Tim's (Everyday Astronaut's) best guess at when to start streaming.

The actual launch time is unknown to everyone outside of SpaceX. For SN8 SpaceX published a live stream of their own a few minutes before launch, but we don't even know if they'll do that this time.
Can you provide sources for these claims? Thanks!
Scrolling by dragging the bar seems to apply the max amount of blur even if you only move it by a pixel, but other than that I could see myself using it as a browser extension. This was a pleasant scrolling experience
Homelessness does not beget homelessness. It is most important to note that. Our society is so focused at solving the primary symptoms without ever diving deeper into the root cause of things like this (looking at you Sf).

To experience homelessness one must have first experienced a reason to now be homeless. In modern western society we have many failsafes that prevent people from becoming totally dislodged from a place of shelter. But more and more people are losing such shelter and are ending up on our streets. Why?

The answer is often rooted in the human condition. Solving that is almost impossible... but it’s worth trying.
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So you think they should use some lower Ct number for which it would be possible to show that eg 99.5% of people who are over it (i.e. have lower viral load) don't infect anyone? Interesting. I've read that most of the false negative for a PCR test actually come from sample collection (makes sense, PCR is super reliable) so it could be that you would miss people with high viral load where the sample was just not taken in a perfect way. Especially early in the infection it could be quite localized.
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Maybe I’m crazy for suggesting this, but for a non mobile layout the single column is a waste of real estate. Maybe allow a the current UI for those who don’t want to change but have a 2 column layout for those with the space that has top and new side by side. For mobile I think the current UI is sufficient.
The excellent lowtechmagazine does a deep dive on this:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/06/ocean-liners.html

> to transport one passenger across the Atlantic, a plane needs 4 times more engine power than a ship. Energy output does not say all there is to say about fuel consumption however, since it does not take into account the duration of the trip (see comments) and the fuel efficiency of the engines. It says even less about the emissions of toxic fumes and CO2, because marine engines burn much dirtier fuel than aeroplanes.

> If we would stuff people in the Queen Mary 2 like we fold passengers in airplane seats, the ship could transport more than 500,000 people ... [This] would boil down to a power output of 0.18 kilowatts per passenger – comparable to the output of a well-trained cyclist and 700 times more efficient than the engine power per passenger of an airplane. Taking into account the duration of the voyages, the ship scores 70 times better than the plane.

> Transporting 30,000 people on the QM2 is far from unrealistic or uncomfortable ... Every one of those 30,000 passengers on the Queen Mary 2 would have 20 times as much space than a passenger on a plane, while at the same time consuming 43 times less engine power (taking the view that both engines has similar efficiency). Taking into account the duration of the trip, the ship is 4 times more energy efficient than the plane.Now this looks like an option that could be useful in a peak oil world.

> Replacing planes by ocean liners would be an ecologically sound idea, but only if marine engines become cleaner. Most ships make use of very dirty (unrefined) diesel oil that needlessly poisons the air and heats up the atmosphere. This is not a technological but a political problem.
Loving Wolt. Btw, try tapping on the time estimate circle after placing an order. What's the highest score you ever got? :)
Perhaps not for quite a while.

The vaccine grants 95% protection with those measures in place. We have no idea how effective it is without those measures. If we're all going to dance parties, the vaccine might not be adequate.

I think the question is the point at which we can send kids back to schools and reopen our businesses with precautions in place -- in other words, stem the pain and bleeding.

It makes sense to keep masks on and 6-foot distance until the virus is gone, though. Vaccine+masking/distancing should be enough to get rid of it. It's not clear vaccine alone will do that.

If not, we'll be on a dance for decades with new mutations, vaccines, and whatnot. We want this thing dead and gone for good.

I don't think we're on a path to get there, though. People are fed up. If we can't get this under control, I suspect the new normal will be outbreaks for the rest of our lives. Perhaps the vaccine will be 95% without distancing. Or perhaps not.
Only Tesla uses a proprietary charging protocol.

AFAIK other car makers in the US use either CCS or ChaDeMo.

In Europe, all car makers (including Tesla) support CCS.

CCS allows DC charging and has support for load balancing, so I assume it could be feasible to create a home CCS charger that directly charges an EV with DC from solar panels.

However, considering how expensive power electronics are, and how difficult it would be to integrate such a charger into an existing solar installation, I have doubts that many people would buy such a charger. Also, I don't really know how CCS works in detail, so I may be totally wrong about this.
Jesus... this cancer should come close to such a good game.
Curiously enough, the page does not show any example of the resulting JSON.
Looks like the military academy football coach is a contractor, not a federal employee.

Interestingly, medical specialists is one of the few places that the USG has allowed itself to offer competitive salaries for expertise. Wish we'd do the same for software engineering and data analysis.
>Unfortunately I don't think there's huge scope for more hydro across Europe as it's very disruptive to build.

My doubt is not really about new hydro. I suspect it's mostly maxed out in most places. Both because of geography and policy reasons. It's more two things:

1) The hydro we have on the total grid is enough to balance how much wind+solar? There are countries with a lot more hydro resources than others (e.g., Norway has an even more hydro-based mix than Portugal) that could potentially allow a healthier grid mix with better interconnects. New interconnects have been announced but I haven't found a source for a total opportunity.

2) How much of the hydro we have can be converted to pumped hydro to use as a battery. If you see the spreadsheet Portugal pumps in reverse about 14% of the energy. Not all dams have the geography for it but even the ones that do may not have the requisite hardware for it. How much can this be expanded?